Description
Wildlife sightings data from http://www.WildlifeSightings.net . Nature enthusiasts, educators and non-profit organizations contribute wildlife sightings to a public citizen science database. Educators and non-profit groups use free online tools to manage their own local wildlife surveys and citizen science projects.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 3,279 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Wildlife Sightings - (http://www.wildlifesightings.net)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Wildlife Sightings. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b70121ef-b7ea-4316-a05b-abdf30f5ca09. Wildlife Sightings publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Wildlife Sightings; classroom; Canada; Nova Scotia; citizen science; observations; conservation; education; SAS; cloud storage; online tools; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| GBIF data portal | http://www.gbif.org/dataset/b70121ef-b7ea-4316-a05b-abdf30f5ca09 UTF-8 HTML |
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Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
Geographic Coverage
Global coverage. Currently 10 countries with sightings, the majority of observations are from Canada.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All life. Current sightings are largely birds, insects and plants.
| Kingdom | Animalia (Animals), Plantae (Plants) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 2009-present |
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Sampling Methods
Direct observation, sometimes accompanied by a photograph.
| Study Extent | All locations, all the time |
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Method step description:
- n/a
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | b70121ef-b7ea-4316-a05b-abdf30f5ca09 |
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| http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource.do?r=wildlife-sightings-observations |